About

Under various pieces of legislation, SEPA have to maintain certain information about activities we regulate in registers and make that information available to the public. These different registers of information are commonly referred to together as "the Public Register".

The criminal cyber-attack on our systems disabled access to much of our public register documentation. We have continued to provide a service in response to requests for Public Register information and we also provide access to some Public Register information online.

We are also creating a new on-line digital Public Register service which will make most of our regulatory documents and data publicly available. This ambitious five-year project is part of our digital transformation.We are starting this process by publishing the permit documentation for some of the most environmentally significant sites regulated by us, issued under the Pollution Prevention & Control (Scotland) Regulations 2012 (‘PPC’).

What is this service for?

Access to authorisation documents (including permits) for PPC Part A authorisations. The following documents will be made available:

• The permit documentation for the site issued by SEPA including the original permit, variation notices and transfer notices
• Any documents associated with permitting decisions made in 2022
• Returns made to SEPA by the operator such as the latest monitoring reports